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A practical about:config checklist to declutter Firefox right-click menus on macOS, disabling AI/chatbot prompts, link previews, OCR, visual search, and other low-value context menu items.

The AfricaMuseum in Tervuren (Flemish Brabant) is refusing to hand over geological archive material on Congo to an American mining company that wants to use the data to map valuable raw materials. ‘We want to digitalise the archives ourselves and not leave…

What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds.

You don’t need accessibility… until you do. Sunlight on a screen. A broken mouse. A migraine. Aging eyes. Accessibility isn’t a special feature. It’s how technology works in the real world.

A new preprint extends single-minus amplitudes to gravitons, with GPT-5.2 Pro helping derive and verify nonzero graviton tree amplitudes in quantum gravity.

Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements -- then, OpenAI swooped in.

An analysis of the cost increases that occurred among businesses in the New York-Northern New Jersey region in 2025, using the February regional surveys.

Companies will pay for upgrades and new electricity generation in agreement to mitigate concerns of rising bills

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not tell the whole story.

We tried Event, Condition, and Queue. Each one gets closer but still breaks under real concurrency. Here's the observable pattern that finally works.

Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Poppy helps you remember to reach out to people you care about. Local-first on iOS.

Exploring the chardet v7.0.0 controversy: Can an AI rewrite legally 'launder' a library from LGPL to MIT?

“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” — Aldous Huxley, Island It was cold out, but none of us were cold. I sat with five men in the mountains of Montana. As…

The four-pane System Browser has shaped Smalltalk development for forty years. It’s still brilliant at providing context. But the real problem may not be the browser itself—it may be the lack of composition between the tools that surround it.

Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First of...

Over 2,000 lawsuits have been filed by companies in the court seeking to recoup their money after the Supreme Court invalidated tariffs last month.